Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
| 2 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 3 | By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy . |
| 4 | He saw a vast patch of blood and guessed that the ship must have been in one of the many petty skirmishes which took place at sea , for ships of various nations , Norway , Denmark , England , Scotland and France used these waters for fishing , trade and piracy . |
| 5 | She must have been in one of those baskets in the back of the car , Ruth supposed . |
| 6 | Tamsin , being half and half , could have been in any of them . |
| 7 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
| 8 | Could the murderer have been from either of these ? ’ |
| 9 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 10 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |